Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Pray Today August 17th for the Republic of Lithuania

Lithuania

Republic of Lithuania

Europe

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Geography

Area: 65,301 sq km
The southernmost of the three Baltic states. Flat, arable land with many forests and lakes.
Population: 3,255,324 Annual Growth: -0.96%
Capital: Vilnius
Urbanites: 67.2%
HDI Rank: 46 of 182 (UN Human Development Reports 2009)

Peoples

Peoples: 24 (29% unreached) All peoples
Unreached Peoples Prayer Card

Official language:Lithuanian Languages: 12 All languages

Religion

Largest Religion: Christian

Religion		Pop %	Ann Gr
Christians	2,778,745	85.36	-1.1
Evangelicals	35,894	1.1	2.7

Answer to Prayer

Religious freedom in the post-Soviet era has seen many dynamic new Christian groups emerge, injecting new life into the nation’s spirituality. Unity between different Christian groups and denominations is very good, especially for a former Soviet state.

Challenge for Prayer

Freedom has brought progress. Doors for the gospel remain open, and evangelical positions can have a hearing in society. However, with freedom came many dangers – increased materialism, hedonism and nihilism. Substance abuse, suicide and, most sinister, trafficking women for prostitution in the West all disintegrate the nation’s foundations. Often, the most gifted leave Lithuania for more lucrative positions elsewhere. Economic growth must be paired with real social and spiritual transformation; pray that God would bring massive societal change through His people.
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Psalm 138

New International Version (NIV)

Psalm 138

Of David. ¹ I will praise you, LORD, with all my heart;
   before the “gods” I will sing your praise.
² I will bow down toward your holy temple
   and will praise your name
   for your unfailing love and your faithfulness,
for you have so exalted your solemn decree
   that it surpasses your fame.
³ When I called, you answered me;
   you greatly emboldened me.
⁴ May all the kings of the earth praise you, LORD,
   when they hear what you have decreed.
⁵ May they sing of the ways of the LORD,
   for the glory of the LORD is great.
⁶ Though the LORD is exalted, he looks kindly on the lowly;
   though lofty, he sees them from afar.
⁷ Though I walk in the midst of trouble,
   you preserve my life.
You stretch out your hand against the anger of my foes;
   with your right hand you save me.
⁸ The LORD will vindicate me;
   your love, LORD, endures forever—
   do not abandon the works of your hands.

Proverbs 17 (with text - press on more info.)

Mark 8 (with text - press on more info.)

Great Are You Lord - Maranatha Singers

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Let's Tall About Faith

Faith teaching is something I have had a hard time with in the past. I used to think I was not to tell anyone I was sick. I was to have a sort of a false face on, to act like I was not sick even if I was because most people really did not care.

Then it was made clear to me, I could acknowledge my sickness and pain but deny its right to exists in my body.

I could pray like this:

Pain, I know you are there but you are trespassing on Gods Property. I am bought with a price you did not and could not pay, so you must leave my body now and not return in Jesus Name.

Holy Spirit Come and Fill this place and Keep it full till Jesus takes me home.

In Jesus name I ask this.

Holy Spirit, Thanks for being my comforter.

A Note from Our Friend Pat

There are two ways we can live our lives.

We can either live by the senses or we can live by faith. The flesh wants us to live by our senses. It wants to be god to us by revealing the "truth" to us. When we are ill, the flesh tells us "You are ill. Just look at your fever. See I told you that you're ill. Feel the pain." Faith on the other hand tells us what God says about sickness.

Faith declares that "by His strips we are healed." Faith does not rely on "physical evidence," It depends on what the Bible says. If we choose to live by our senses, we are subject to every, hurt, disaster, plague, and misfortune that the devil can come up with. When we decide to live by faith, we are choosing to relax in the arms of God himself. We are making a decision to live in the knowledge that God will never leave us or forsake us. Live by faith and we will enjoy Heaven on Earth. When we live by faith we can say,

"Take my will, and make it Thine,

It shall be no longer mine;

Take my heart, it is Thine own;

It shall be Thy royal throne."

Pray Today for Liechtenstein

Liechtenstein

Principality of Liechtenstein

Europe

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Geography

Area: 160 sq km
Mountainous enclave on the Rhine between Switzerland and Austria. One of two doubly landlocked countries.
Population: 36,190 Annual Growth: 0.84%
Capital: Vaduz
Urbanites: 14.2%
HDI Rank: 19 of 182 (UN Human Development Reports 2009)

Peoples

Peoples: 8 (13% unreached) All peoples
Unreached Peoples Prayer Card

Official language: German, but the common tongue is Alemmanic, a divergent dialect of Standard German Languages: 4 All languages

Religion

Largest Religion: Christian

Religion		Pop %	Ann Gr
Christians	28,648	79.16	0.1
Evangelicals	186	0.5	1.3

Challenges for Prayer

Liechtenstein has changed from a feudal backwater in the 1930s to a sophisticated and affluent modern state. The last remaining vestige of the Holy Roman Empire; the prince’s family has always been Catholic and the vast majority of native citizens are likewise, albeit most only nominally. Expatriates represent several Christian confessions, but non-religion and Islam are growing rapidly. Few in this country have ever been confronted with the necessity of a personal faith in Christ. Pray that, as the immigrant population increases, encounters with the gospel might likewise multiply.
The first and only evangelical fellowshipof believers was started in 1985 after an evangelistic campaign launched by British, Norwegian and Swiss believers. The evangelical population, mostly expatriates, is now slowly increasing. Campus for Christ had a part-time presence hosting evangelistic breakfasts. Some members of the extended royal family profess personal faith in Christ, with links to the Catholic charismatic renewal movement.

So many direction the children of Zion when

So Many songs to choose from and so many direction the children of Zion when. So it is not so suprizing that it would reflect in so many ways. Let’s lesson to them.

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down

Ye-eah we wept, when we remembered Zion.

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down

Ye-eah we wept, when we remembered Zion.

When the wicked

Carried us away in captivity

Required from us a song

Now how shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?

When the wicked

Carried us away in captivity

Requiring of us a song

Now how shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?

Let the words of our mouth and the meditations of our heart

Be acceptable in thy sight here tonight

Let the words of our mouth and the meditation of our hearts

Be acceptable in thy sight here tonight

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down

Ye-eah we wept, when we remembered Zion.

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down

Ye-eah we wept, when we remembered Zion.

By the rivers of Babylon, tears of Babylon

There we sat down, you got to sing a song

Ye-eah we wept, sing a song of love

When we remember Zion

Rivers of Babylon-The Melodians

JIMMY CLIFF Rivers of Babylon

Rivers of Babylon - Boney M asked not to sing in Ramallah

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down
Ye-eah we wept, when we remembered Zion.

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down
Ye-eah we wept, when we remembered Zion.

When the wicked
Carried us away in captivity
Required from us a song
Now how shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?

When the wicked
Carried us away in captivity
Requiring of us a song
Now how shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?

Let the words of our mouth and the meditations of our heart
Be acceptable in thy sight here tonight

Let the words of our mouth and the meditation of our hearts
Be acceptable in thy sight here tonight

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down
Ye-eah we wept, when we remembered Zion.

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down
Ye-eah we wept, when we remembered Zion.

By the rivers of Babylon, tears of Babylon
There we sat down, you got to sing a song
Ye-eah we wept, sing a song of love
When we remember Zion

The Jewish Temple, remembered

Proverbs 16 (with text - press on more info.)

Mark 7 (with text - press on more info.)

Psalm 137

New International Version (NIV)

Psalm 137

¹ By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept
   when we remembered Zion.
² There on the poplars
   we hung our harps,
³ for there our captors asked us for songs,
   our tormentors demanded songs of joy;
   they said, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!” ⁴ How can we sing the songs of the LORD
   while in a foreign land?
⁵ If I forget you, Jerusalem,
   may my right hand forget its skill.
⁶ May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth
   if I do not remember you,
if I do not consider Jerusalem
   my highest joy.
⁷ Remember, LORD, what the Edomites did
   on the day Jerusalem fell.
“Tear it down,” they cried,
   “tear it down to its foundations!”
⁸ Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,
   happy is the one who repays you
   according to what you have done to us.
⁹ Happy is the one who seizes your infants
   and dashes them against the rocks.

Monday, August 15, 2011

Rocket explodes near Beersheba - Christians United for Israel

Proverbs 15 (with text - press on more info.)

His Love Endures Forever

Mark 6 (with text - press on more info.)

Psalm 136

New International Version (NIV)

Psalm 136

¹ Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good.
            His love endures forever.
² Give thanks to the God of gods.
            His love endures forever.
³ Give thanks to the Lord of lords:
            His love endures forever. ⁴ to him who alone does great wonders,
            His love endures forever.
⁵ who by his understanding made the heavens,
            His love endures forever.
⁶ who spread out the earth upon the waters,
            His love endures forever.
⁷ who made the great lights—
            His love endures forever.
⁸ the sun to govern the day,
            His love endures forever.
⁹ the moon and stars to govern the night;
            His love endures forever.
¹⁰ to him who struck down the firstborn of Egypt
            His love endures forever.
¹¹ and brought Israel out from among them
            His love endures forever.
¹² with a mighty hand and outstretched arm;
            His love endures forever.
¹³ to him who divided the Red Sea^[a] asunder
            His love endures forever.
¹⁴ and brought Israel through the midst of it,
            His love endures forever.
¹⁵ but swept Pharaoh and his army into the Red Sea;
            His love endures forever.
¹⁶ to him who led his people through the wilderness;
            His love endures forever.
¹⁷ to him who struck down great kings,
            His love endures forever.
¹⁸ and killed mighty kings—
            His love endures forever.
¹⁹ Sihon king of the Amorites
            His love endures forever.
²⁰ and Og king of Bashan—
            His love endures forever.
²¹ and gave their land as an inheritance,
            His love endures forever.
²² an inheritance to his servant Israel.
            His love endures forever.
²³ He remembered us in our low estate
            His love endures forever.
²⁴ and freed us from our enemies.
            His love endures forever.
²⁵ He gives food to every creature.
            His love endures forever.
²⁶ Give thanks to the God of heaven.
            His love endures forever.

Footnotes:

Psalm 136:13 Or the Sea of Reeds; also in verse 15

Prayer Today August 15

Liechtenstein

Principality of Liechtenstein

Europe

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Geography

Peoples

Peoples: 8 (13% unreached) All peoples
Unreached Peoples Prayer Card

Official language: German, but the common tongue is Alemmanic, a divergent dialect of Standard German Languages: 4 All languages

Religion

Largest Religion: Christian

Religion		Pop %	Ann Gr
Christians	28,648	79.16	0.1
Evangelicals	186	0.5	1.3

Challenges for Prayer

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Giants ~ Lyrics

Giants do die the bigger they are the harder they fall, Giants they die just walk around the Jericicho Wall

As we come in Your name
And we stand on your word

What is loosed in the heavens
Will be loosed on earth

Let God arise Giants die

Your praise will bring down strong holds
When you praise you will see miracles
Just praise when things seem impossible
And the king of glory, will show his glory
Let God arise, giant, die

Giants do die the bigger they are the harder they fall, Giants they die just walk around the Jericicho Wall

As we come in Your name

And i'll stand in your word
What is loosed in the heavens
Will be loosed on earth (Repeat)

Let God arise Giants die

When u praise (3x) They gotta come down
(Repeat)

When u worship (3x) They gotta come down
(Repeat)

When u shout, just shout, when u shout
They gotta come down
(Repeat)

They gotta come down (8x)

When u shout, just shout, when u shout
They gotta come down (4x)

They gotta come down (4x)

Let God arise Giants die

Donald Lawrence - Giants

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Liberia

Republic of Liberia

Africa

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Geography

Area: 99,067 sq km
Heavily forested coastal state adjoining Sierra Leone, Guinea and Côte d’Ivoire.
Population: 4,101,767 Annual Growth: 4.23%
Capital: Monrovia
Urbanites: 61.5%
HDI Rank: 169 of 182 (UN Human Development Reports 2009)

Peoples

Peoples: 40 (10% unreached) All peoples
Unreached Peoples Prayer Card

Official language: English Languages:31 All languages

Religion

Largest Religion: Ethnoreligionist

Religion		Pop %	Ann Gr
Christians	1,699,362	41.43	4.9
Evangelicals	600,533	14.6	4.6
Ethnoreligionist	1,743,251	42.50

Answer to Prayer

Peace and stability seem to have arrived for the longer term. The resignation of Taylor, his exile and trial, and the appointment of Africa’s first elected female leader – combined with the return of hundreds of thousands of refugees and acceleration of Liberia’s reconstruction – generate a forward-looking atmosphere of hope, despite urgent and obvious challenges.

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Challenge for Prayer

Rebuilding after two civil wars is Liberia’s greatest challenge. The country was devastated and the people traumatized. War was a blight that also poisoned Sierra Leone and Guinea. Its roots fed on deep ethnic hatreds, greed and corruption, lust for power and Christians’ failure to have a redemptive effect on society, all giving Satan opportunity. Pray specifically for:
a) The president and government.Elections have given legitimacy to the current regime, but wisdom and forward thinking are essential. A culture of graft, patronage and corruption must be overturned. The task force against corruption must achieve – and be seen to achieve – results. Pray for uprightness and justice to characterize Liberia’s leaders.
b) Economic recovery. Almost the entire nation needed rebuilding as of 2005. Already deeply in debt, Liberia must manage its considerable natural resources shrewdly, responsibly, and in its own best interests, not those of foreign speculators. Poverty still affects the majority of the population; unemployment grips the nation.
c) Reconciliation among the ethnic groups involved in fighting, atrocities and massacres – especially the Mandingo and Krahn on one side and the Mano and Gio on the other. Several agencies are doing reconciliation and peacebuilding work.
d) Healing of the terrible physical, psychological and spiritual wounds of war – 65% of the population were uprooted. Almost the entire population are either victims or perpetrators of harsh crimes, some unspeakably cruel.
For an additional 8 Challenges for Prayer see Operation World book, CD-ROM, or DVD-ROM.

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Prayercast | South Africa

Proverbs 14 (with text - press on more info.)

The Lord Be Magnified

FOR THE LORD IS GOOD

Praise the Name of the Lord

Mark 5 (with text - press on more info.)

Psalm 135

New International Version (NIV)

Psalm 135

¹ Praise the LORD.^[a]   Praise the name of the LORD;
   praise him, you servants of the LORD,
² you who minister in the house of the LORD,
   in the courts of the house of our God.
³ Praise the LORD, for the LORD is good;
   sing praise to his name, for that is pleasant.
⁴ For the LORD has chosen Jacob to be his own,
   Israel to be his treasured possession.
⁵ I know that the LORD is great,
   that our Lord is greater than all gods.
⁶ The LORD does whatever pleases him,
   in the heavens and on the earth,
   in the seas and all their depths.
⁷ He makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth;
   he sends lightning with the rain
   and brings out the wind from his storehouses.
⁸ He struck down the firstborn of Egypt,
   the firstborn of people and animals.
⁹ He sent his signs and wonders into your midst, Egypt,
   against Pharaoh and all his servants.
¹⁰ He struck down many nations
   and killed mighty kings—
¹¹ Sihon king of the Amorites,
   Og king of Bashan,
   and all the kings of Canaan—
¹² and he gave their land as an inheritance,
   an inheritance to his people Israel.
¹³ Your name, LORD, endures forever,
   your renown, LORD, through all generations.
¹⁴ For the LORD will vindicate his people
   and have compassion on his servants.
¹⁵ The idols of the nations are silver and gold,
   made by human hands.
¹⁶ They have mouths, but cannot speak,
   eyes, but cannot see.
¹⁷ They have ears, but cannot hear,
   nor is there breath in their mouths.
¹⁸ Those who make them will be like them,
   and so will all who trust in them.
¹⁹ All you Israelites, praise the LORD;
   house of Aaron, praise the LORD;
²⁰ house of Levi, praise the LORD;
   you who fear him, praise the LORD.
²¹ Praise be to the LORD from Zion,
   to him who dwells in Jerusalem.
   Praise the LORD.

Footnotes:

Psalm 135:1 Hebrew Hallelu Yah; also in verses 3 and 21

Saturday, August 13, 2011

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Liberia

Republic of Liberia

Africa

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Geography

Peoples

Peoples: 40 (10% unreached) All peoples
Unreached Peoples Prayer Card

Official language: English Languages:31 All languages

Religion

Largest Religion: Ethnoreligionist

Religion		Pop %	Ann Gr
Christians	1,699,362	41.43	4.9
Evangelicals	600,533	14.6	4.6
Ethnoreligionist	1,743,251	42.50

Answer to Prayer

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Challenge for Prayer

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Our God is Greater - Chris Tomlin

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Liberia

Republic of Liberia

Africa

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Geography

Area: 99,067 sq km

Heavily forested coastal state adjoining Sierra Leone, Guinea and Côte d’Ivoire.

Population: 4,101,767 Annual Growth: 4.23%

Capital: Monrovia

Urbanites: 61.5%

HDI Rank: 169 of 182 (UN Human Development Reports 2009)

Peoples

Peoples: 40 (10% unreached) All peoples
Unreached Peoples Prayer Card

Official language: English Languages:31 All languages

Religion

Largest Religion: Ethnoreligionist

Religion		Pop %	Ann Gr
Christians	1,699,362	41.43	4.9
Evangelicals	600,533	14.6	4.6
Ethnoreligionist	1,743,251	42.50

Answer to Prayer

For an additional Answer to Prayer see Operation World book, CD-ROM, or DVD-ROM.

Challenge for Prayer

a) The president and government.Elections have given legitimacy to the current regime, but wisdom and forward thinking are essential. A culture of graft, patronage and corruption must be overturned. The task force against corruption must achieve – and be seen to achieve – results. Pray for uprightness and justice to characterize Liberia’s leaders.

b) Economic recovery. Almost the entire nation needed rebuilding as of 2005. Already deeply in debt, Liberia must manage its considerable natural resources shrewdly, responsibly, and in its own best interests, not those of foreign speculators. Poverty still affects the majority of the population; unemployment grips the nation.

c) Reconciliation among the ethnic groups involved in fighting, atrocities and massacres – especially the Mandingo and Krahn on one side and the Mano and Gio on the other. Several agencies are doing reconciliation and peacebuilding work.

d) Healing of the terrible physical, psychological and spiritual wounds of war – 65% of the population were uprooted. Almost the entire population are either victims or perpetrators of harsh crimes, some unspeakably cruel.

For an additional 8 Challenges for Prayer see Operation World book, CD-ROM, or DVD-ROM.

More Information

The Operation World book, CD-ROM, and DVD-ROM provide far more information and fuel for prayer for the people of Liberia.

In the Sanctuary

The Lord Roars from Zion with Lyrics האלוהים שואג מטזיון Messianic

Chris Tomlin - Forever

OpWorld | Libya

Mark 4 (with text - press on more info.)

Psalm 134

New International Version (NIV)

Psalm 134

A song of ascents. ¹ Praise the LORD, all you servants of the LORD
   who minister by night in the house of the LORD.
² Lift up your hands in the sanctuary
   and praise the LORD.
³ May the LORD bless you from Zion,
   he who is the Maker of heaven and earth.

For The Lord Is Good

Anthem - "O Come You Servants of the Lord", C. Tye

Friday, August 12, 2011

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Lesotho

Kingdom of Lesotho

Africa

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Geography

Area: 30,355 sq km

A mountainous country completely surrounded by South Africa. Only 10% is arable.

Population: 2,084,182 Annual Growth: 0.88%

Capital: Maseru

Urbanites: 26.9%

HDI Rank: 156 of 182 (UN Human Development Reports 2009)

Peoples

Peoples: 13 (8% unreached) All peoples
Unreached Peoples Prayer Card

Official language: Sesotho, English Languages: 6 All languages

Religion

Largest Religion: Christian

Religion		Pop %	Ann Gr
Christians	1,861,383	89.31	0.9
Evangelicals	253,040	12.1	2.7

Challenges for Prayer

Lesotho faces a tough future. The nation is both protected and imprisoned by its isolated geographical location. Dwindling agricultural returns, an underdeveloped economy, widespread HIV/AIDS, urbanization, family breakdown, endemic poverty and unemployment for much of the population, and limited access to water all combine to place great burdens upon both the people and the government of Lesotho. Pray for wisdom in leadership and for new, creative and sustainable ways to improve the quality of life of the population.

AIDS is the greatest challenge facing Lesotho. It has devastated the population with an HIV infection rate of 23.2% (now stabilizing, but among the world’s highest), already leaving 100,000 orphans. The 20-40 age group, so vital to the economy, is also the most afflicted. A host of agencies, missions and church ministries are answering this challenge in many ways (education, prevention, care). But the risk of reductionism is present as spiritual ministry to needy souls is at times taken over by the overarching spectre of HIV. Pray for a balanced ministry approach that brings life to the whole person.